OPINION:
I live in Israel and I can tell you definitively that it is not an apartheid state. Nearly half of the recipients of Israeli medical licenses are Arabs; half of all new nurses, more than half the dentists and 57% of pharmacists are Arabs. Arab Israelis can vote, they serve in the Knesset, one now serves on the Supreme Court here and they are professors at the universities.
My husband just spent four days at Hadassah Hospital at Har Tsforim, where many many of the staff are Arabs and most of the patients we encountered were Arab also. Currently, about 5,000 Palestinian Arabs serve in the Israeli military, although service is not mandatory for them.
Maybe if the Palestinians would stop trying to kill all the Jews, we could tear down the fence, eliminate the checkpoints, have peace and live in harmony, which is what all Israelis strive for. As Golda Meir so eloquently said, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
Any restrictions imposed on those people the left calls “refugees” (75 years and three generations later) are the result of their baseless hatred.
ARLENE HERSH
Jerusalem
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